J. Louis Schaefer III ’50

Lou died Sept. 2, 2012, in Ponte Vedra, Fla., his home since 1995.

He was born in New York and raised in Greenwich, Conn., where he graduated from the Brunswick School. He served in the Navy before entering Princeton.

At Princeton, where his father was in the Class of 1919, he was a manager of the hockey team, belonged to Elm, and roomed with his brother, Jim ’50, and Bob Roth. His major was mechanical engineering.

Following graduation, he worked for various companies. In 1961, he and a partner purchased the Ostby-Barton Co. in Warwick, R.I., a manufacturer of precision parts for the electronics industry. When the company was sold in 1986, Lou retired.

Lou was an active church member, a YMCA board member and chairman of the YMCA’s Camp Fuller, and a participant in the state’s Small Business Association. He helped establish his county’s Habitat for Humanity chapter and served on its board.

Lou’s greatest love, next to family, was sailing on Narragansett Bay. When he moved to Florida, he became a frequent golfer.

Jane, his wife of 58 years; their children, John, Brent, Mark, Stephen, and Kathy; nine grandchildren; and his sister, Betsy Corkran, survive Lou. Jim predeceased him by a few weeks.